Earlier this week, Tony Wrotenlost the sole of one of his Jordan 10s in a game against the Pacers. Retro issues aren’t necessarily meant for on-court performance, especially at the NBA level, so this particular malfunction was somewhat understandable.

But Wroten kept the story going a couple of days later by saying that Michael Jordan himself had put in a call to personally apologize.

“It was more embarrassing than anything,” Wroten said Wednesday. “But things happen. I got an apology from Jordan. Yeah. … He called my agent.”

Once that got a little traction, however, Wroten and his agent denied what the player had said.

MJ NEVER called and apologized. I was joking around with a local reporter saying “yea he should call me agent” not knowing I would be quoted

“It wasn’t really a big deal,” Wroten said after the Sixers’ loss to the Knicks on Friday night. “But I just wanted to go on Twitter and let people know that Jordan didn’t apologize. … When you listen to the audio, it probably wouldn’t seem like I was joking at all, but that’s why I just had to come out and let people know I was.”

In a time where 100 percent of interviews with players or coaches are recorded, posting the audio should be the standard protocol anytime a disagreement or denial emerges over something that was said. Wroten’s final comments on the matter seem to be the most truthful in this whole mess, but it seems he only came completely clean once it was absolutely necessary.

I’m with tony, you have no idea when someone is joking or not, my best friends can’t tell, so how would a reporter or you or anyone know except for him? Cool, a writer taking the reporters side, obviously…

A lot of these are “poser” shoes. Designed for looks, not functionality. Drives me crazy to see the garbage on the shelf nowadays pandering toward kids. There’s even the lunacy of purchasing them never intending to wear them but instead to be put on a shelf! I think I saw something once where a pair came in a metal briefcase. Whatever.

Though the shoes I described above are for collectors, the player on the court deserve quality. And all of this may seem comical now until a really good player on a contender gets hurt badly.

The league should look into something like suing sneaker companies for blatantly shoddy shoes.